I discovered cardless withdrawals since being here. We’re living in the future baby!

@Ricardo *******

That’s not a donkey, it’s a buffalo. 😆

@Mikkel ******

Thank you. I will be staying with a friend but she is actually renting me a room and registering with immigration so that she can do it. I won’t stay there all the time but it will be a place where I can be contacted and I’ll be there a lot. The medical insurance is the thing that upsets me. I have money for a lot of treatment and emergencies but so many pre-existing conditions that the insurance is useless. I guess it might be useful if my right kidney gives out, that’s the only thing that hasn’t had a problem at some point 😂

@Mikkel ******

Thank you for your full reply, I see where I’m going wrong. I have 800K in the bank here now so the O is OK for me.

@Stuart ********

I’ll do that tomorrow. Thank you

@Stuart ********

So I can get extend this one on the grounds of retirement? I already have the money in a Thai Bank and somewhere to stay. Need health insurance, have criminal record check.

@Judy ******

Thank you for pointing this out. I want a retirement visa but my 4 month visa seems to be a non-o and I can’t find the web page to extend that. 🥹

@Stuart ********

so the 3 month visa I have is the wrong one

@Yuen ********

We have little choice, we just have to navigate our own lives around them. 😁

@Yuen ********

British public servants often have the attitude that they are doing you a favour. The fact that they are not being paid by you directly seems to make British people think that the service is free and that we should be grateful. The fact that we’ve paid huge amounts of tax over many years seems to not be a consideration. The result is often that they take a passive aggressive approach to the people they are paid to serve, suggesting that you’re wasting their time. This attitude is normally more common in the administrative staff than in the profession people. A good example is the National Health Service - when you finally get to see a doctor or some other clinical staff, they will treat you with respect and professionalism. The problem is that you will have to go through a number of administrative people who will make you feel like a freeloader.

All cultures have their good points as well as their pathologies and this is just part of the joy of being British. 😂